bow windown.
1. A bay window segmentally curved on plan; called in A.P.S. Dict. Arch., a Bow Bay-window.Often used as co-extensive with bay window, whence ‘such absurdities of diction as “square bow windows”’. Bay window is generic, bow window specific, and of much later rise, this form of bay being rare in earlier times.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > bay or oriel window
oriela1400
bay window1428
compassed windowa1552
boss window1553
compass-window1621
jut-window1693
bow window1753
oriel window1764
bowre-window1803
oriel casement1883
bow1885
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxiv. 134 Both of us sat in the bow-window.
1803 H. Repton Observ. Landscape Gardening xii. 178 Large recesses or bays, sometimes called bowre windows, and now bow windows.
1816 J. Austen Emma II. ix. 176 A string of dawdling children round the baker's..bow-window . View more context for this quotation
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxvi. 349 His common lounge was the bow-window of White's.
2. slang. A big belly.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
just wombc1400
paunch?a1425
gorbelly1519
barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
pack paunch1582
swag-paunch1611
swag bellya1616
bottle belly1655
paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack i. 4 A very large man..with what is termed a considerable bow-window in front.
Derivatives
ˈbow-ˌwindowed adj. having bow windows; also (slang) big-bellied.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of
great-wombedc1325
wombedc1325
big-bellied?c1475
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tun-bellied1551
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paunch-bellied1586
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tun-gutted1607
ventripotent1611
swag-bellieda1616
tun-grown1628
bottle-bellied1646
pot-bellied1647
belly-mountained1654
pauncheda1657
sag-bellied1665
barrel-bellied1694
ventricous1702
poke pudding1705
paunch-gutted1726
pot-gutted1731
paunchfula1763
pottle-bellied1777
tunnified1806
tun-likea1813
shad-bellied1832
ventricose1843
bow-windowed1849
bloated-bellied1871
barrel-stomached1884
stomachy1888
well-stomached1896
jelly-bellied1899
narrow-gutted1903
pus-gutted1915
great-stomached1944
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [adjective] > bay or oriel window
orielleda1823
bowed1823
embayed1834
bay-windowed1836
bow-windowed1849
embowed1864
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxv. 343 Look at that very bow-windowed man.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice ix. 44 The upstairs bow-windowed room.
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